Comments by "snuffeldjuret" (@snuffeldjuret) on "Elon Musk, War Profiteering? W-T-F!" video.

Seeing TF being extremely upset and mad about Elon's success is ever more juicy than seeing Elon's actual success.
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@KoolKman you kind of left out that he told Musk to show it up his a** and that it was a publicity stunt, nothing less. Perfectly fine for Elon to be upset about that.
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@thomasbecker9676 If becoming the richest person alive isn't considered being successful according to you, you are the one that needs to declare your definition of the word.
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@thomasbecker9676 No, what made you think that? I find it interesting that you failed to define success, instead made a poor attempt at deflecting.
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@thomasbecker9676 You are deflecting by not addressing the point and misrepresenting what I said. I think success includes a lot of things, where one of them is wealth. Do you think wealth is completely removed from success? So being a successful businessman is something that doesn't actually exist? Are you also claiming SpaceX hasn't been successful at anything?
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@thomasbecker9676 "I asked you to define success. Your response was ..." I am not obligated to directly answer your question. Expressing a perfect definition with no flaw what so ever is basically impossible, thus I countered with asking if not becoming the richest man in the world would be defined as being successful, how do you define it? How does one become the world richest man without being successful? "You mentioned no other metrics, so one can only assume that you use wealth as the sole measure of success." No, the assumption you should make is that wealth matters. If your interpretation was correct, I would have said that straight up. The fact that I didn't should give you pause when you make your far too simplistic interpretation. " Now you're backtracking on what you said." Not at all, I am pointing out the errors in your interpretation of what I said. I still say it is impossible to say Elon is unsuccessful solely for the simple reason that he has become the richest person in the world based on the success of his companies. No matter what other factors play in to being successful, that is enough to determine he is. We live in a capitalistic system and he is capitalist 1, that is success baby, no matter how much it is a thorn in your, TF's and CSS's eyes.
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@thomasbecker9676 tldr is that you misrepresent what I say. I say wealth has to be a part (but not the entirety) of the definition of success as we live in a capitalistic society. Do you claim it is completely irrelevant? If you don't want nuanced answers, don't ask question that require it.
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@thomasbecker9676 but I didn't say it was exclusively about wealth, that was an interpretation you made up based on your bias. Me pointing out how you are wrong is not moving the goalpost, it is getting you to not make things up, it is so, so much different. The way I cited wealth wasn't even by referencing it is a lot about it, only speaking about the wealthiest person alive surely has to be it. If anything, that indicates that I don't think it is a major component of being successful. Again, you haven't answered me how a person becomes the richest person alive without being successful. That is why I make this example, because you will not be able to address it, and you haven't. Instead you try to make a straw man out of my argument and try to tackle that. It is kind of sad, really.
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